![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The physical and social world of the time, unlike the two other Galician-Portuguese genres, is very present in the cantigas de escárnio e maldizer, making this genre a great way of studying the social and cultural history of that time. Obscenity is the rule in cantigas de maldizer. Insult or mockery are the essence, though techniques have a great variation, such as praising in order to blame, defending in order to accuse, thanking in order to insult. The genre often has complex forms, with a variety of personae, and with the rhetoric being roughly in the middle of complexity in comparation to the cantiga de amor and the cantiga de amigo. The Galician-Portuguese lyrical corpus has approximately 400 texts belonging to the genre. It is often incorrectly characterized as satire, the difference being that this genre normally insults named individuals, unlike the satire, that insults entire classes of people. The King Alfonso X, the Wise wrote cantigas de escárnio e maldizer. ![]()
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